AutoGrade: AI-Powered Essay Grading System

🎓 Introducing AutoGrade: Secure AI-Powered Essay Grading for ESL Classrooms 🔐✍️ Proud to unveil our Information Security Semester Project — AutoGrade — a groundbreaking AI system that automates and secures essay grading for ESL learners. This project has been a journey of innovation, security, and impact — and it would not have been possible without two key people: 👩🏫 Our respected teacher and project supervisor Waqas Ali — thank you for your invaluable guidance, constant encouragement, and expert mentorship throughout the development. 🤝 My amazing team member, Leena Zaheer— your dedication, technical brilliance, and teamwork have been central to bringing AutoGrade to life. Couldn't have asked for a better collaborator! ✨ Project Highlights: 🔹 BERT-powered AI model for grading six linguistic traits 🔹 ASP.NET Core backend with MSSQL & AES-256-CBC encryption 🔹 Next.js frontend with teacher override and admin controls 🔹 Zero Trust Security: MFA, RBAC, monitoring & more 🔹 91% accuracy on ESL essays from the ELLIPSE Corpus 📽️ Watch our project introduction and demo video Together, we’ve built not just a project — but a tool that supports educators and safeguards learning. #AIinEducation #AutoGrade #Cybersecurity #FinalYearProject #UETLahore #NextJS #ASPNetCore #MachineLearning #AIGrading #BERT #HuggingFace #ZeroTrust #MFA #RBAC #StudentInnovation #NLP #TeacherSupport #ProjectShowcase #ESL #AIForGood #AcademicSecurity #Teamwork #Gratitude